Reheating food is very common in Guatemala. Familes always have something that needs a short cooking time (coffee, reheating tortillas, eggs, or generally reheating food). Many families that even have a fridge leave food out and reheat it the next couple of days such as refried beans, etc.
I have lived in Guatemala the last two years. Christina Espinosa Sent from my iPad On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Paul Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Stovers, > > The need for very small stoves has at least three justifications. And both > relate to small fire for small cooking tasks. > > 1. In the developing societies, are there examples of people who re-heat > left-over food? I know of none. The situation relates to the lack of ways > to safely save cooked food until later meals. Refrigerators are generally not > available. But maybe in cold climates, some people can save food for > several hours or even for a day. > > 2. In developing societies, what are the SMALL (and short duration) cooking > tasks? We seldom mention a one or two person household. Many "singles" and > elderly live with their family members, so maybe there simply not many small > households. And maybe the foods lend themselves to being cooked in > large-ish pots. AND the people eat all that is prepared. OR worse, any > excess food gets thrown to the dogs, pigs, chickens, etc. > > 3. In affluent societies, re-heating left-overs and/or single or two-person > households are common, so small cooking with biomass could be useful. > > Who can cite examples of SMALL cooking? Especially for developing > societies. How about : > > a. a quick couple of cooked eggs > b. hot water for tea or coffee for a few people > c. preparing special food for babies > d. the need to re-heat the food when someone arrives well after mealtime > e. other>>>>>>>>>> please give examples > > Note: The above relates to the current practices of cooking, which include > the following for developing societies: > > A). If a family has a small smoldering fire for many many hours (wasting > fuel while making smoke), there already is a "small fire", but not a very > good one. > > B). If the family is so poor (or without access to fuels), they simply > cannot have a fire except once a day because they do not have a stove that > makes a good small fire. > > C). Other practices....... please give examples. > > *************** So, why am I asking?? ********** > Because of my recent interest in Boy Scout individual cooking AND because at > my house we do re-heat leaf-overs for just my wife and I, I am seeing some > valid reasons to have some very small stoves. For example, tonight I used a > special small TLUD natural draft stove to re-heat some lentils (almost a > soup). I used 130 grams of wood (pellets, but wood chips would have done > the job) to heat a small (5 inch diameter) pot for 10 minutes, and still had > 12 more minutes of fire. So I will try soon to do a similar task with 65 > grams of fuel. > > TLUD micro-gasifiers are especially well suited for these small cooking tasks. > > 1)) They can be started quite quickly, so there is no delay waiting for the > fire to build. > > 2)) They can almost self-extinguish, with reduction down to only a small > amount of glowing charcoal. (20% of 130 g is only 26 g of char that is not > a major loss if left to burn to ash, but I actually saved it. And I hope to > use only half the fuel (and char) next time. > > 3)) By the way, my little TLUD is essentially "tincanium" and could be > easily made wherever tin cans are found (including in Haiti where Food-Aid > cooking oil comes in tins appropriate for the outer cylinder of the small > TLUD. > > Any comments will be appreciated. > > Paul > > -- > Paul S. Anderson, PhD aka "Dr TLUD" > Email: [email protected] Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072 > Website: www.drtlud.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://www.bioenergylists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
